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solaireastora's review against another edition
5.0
Gorgeous, passionate poetry from a true master. The muses were kind to Propertius, whose love for Cynthia is forever immortalized here.
casparb's review against another edition
I've been entertaining this one for a week or so Propertius is an odd chap there's something about a love poet who opens his love poems with how awful love is that can lend to either tragedy or comedy and this felt more the latter. He's quite vituperative really he threatens his beloved Cynthia quite explicitly it's unpleasant and he really doesn't like that she dyed her hair blue. He does like it when she bites him.
Anyway so much of a love poet as he may be I really liked the couple elegies in here - the one for Paetus (drowned at sea) especially which is a potential influence on Milton and other though probably a degree of the translator's sway. Also very nice prosopopoeia in IV.7, Cynthia's Ghost which assumes the voice of the dead beloved from earlier (o dear) and berates Propertius (he deserves it)
odd little man
Anyway so much of a love poet as he may be I really liked the couple elegies in here - the one for Paetus (drowned at sea) especially which is a potential influence on Milton and other though probably a degree of the translator's sway. Also very nice prosopopoeia in IV.7, Cynthia's Ghost which assumes the voice of the dead beloved from earlier (o dear) and berates Propertius (he deserves it)
odd little man
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